Chapter 80 Training the Army and Defeating the Enemy (2)
"All these people have to be replaced." Ye Yongjia walked into the tent and looked back at Du Qing. "We should carefully select a few people to go up. Did you remember everything when I inspected them one by one just now?"
Du Qing took out the piece of paper he was holding in his hand: "Your Excellency, you will take note of me while you are calling your name. Everything you are dissatisfied with has been circled, and not a single one has been omitted. Which ones should be eliminated in the end will only depend on Your Excellency's opinion."
"Any soldier who uses a musket needs to be nimble with his hands and feet. Like Liu Da, who knows very little about shotguns and is heavy and heavy, how can he be qualified as the leader of a team? In this way, everyone will follow suit and not strive for improvement.
, if someone with real talent saw it, he would be heartbroken."
"This is all caused by the lower officials' lack of preparation. Please don't blame the soldiers, sir." Du Qing bowed his head and bowed deeply.
Ye Yongjia could only sigh: "Since the general loves his soldiers as his own children, how can I eliminate them? See if you can transfer all these people to other military camps? This can be considered good governance."
Du Qing suddenly raised his head and looked at him steadily: "Then... I will thank Lord Ye on behalf of these soldiers!"
Ye Yongjia smiled and said: "It's just a small thing, so how can I say thank you? Compared with this matter, it is more important to re-elect a new army. You know your subordinates yourself. Choose a few sergeants with sharp eyes and quick hands to see me tomorrow.
Remember to strictly enforce military discipline and make the whole army nervous about it."
"I will do it now without waiting for tomorrow." After saying that, Du Qing said goodbye to the two of them and walked out of the tent resolutely.
After receiving Ye Yongjia's order, Du Qing worked tirelessly and conscientiously to select soldiers for him, and repeatedly warned him with military laws. Anyone who was lazy to deal with it would have his status reduced to serve the people. Everyone has always been treated favorably by Du Qing, and today I saw him
Suddenly severe, instead of feeling resentful, he strived to perform and practiced hard on the school field in order to achieve success.
In order to live up to the sincerity of the sergeants, he never slept for days, asked Ye Yongjia for books, personally taught them how to use blunderbuss, and finally selected a suitable replacement candidate for Ye Yongjia to review one by one.
These soldiers fired the muskets quickly, moving more than twice as fast as Liu Da and others, their eyesight was very accurate, and they were calm in shooting. Basically, they all hit the target ten times out of ten.
Ye Yongjia and Cai Xianqing looked at each other with joy on their faces. They immediately gave them a reward of silver and incorporated them into the new army.
After the troops were all organized, Ye Yongjia summoned the soldiers on the school field and gave an order: "All officers and men know how to use the gunpowder, and they can fire it accurately. However, there is also a way to form a formation, and it should not be taken lightly. I watch you load gunpowder.
Taking out the lead and the match rope are all done by one person. Although this method is not very useful in target practice,
It is important, but once you get to the battlefield, it is difficult to fire quickly in a hurry, which is not conducive to the situation at all. Therefore, when you are in battle, you should form a team of two, of course, you can also have three or four people, alternately fire the gun, and one person has finished firing.
Others are doing things like fetching medicine and ropes; helping each other can save a lot of time."
Immediately afterwards, Du Qing just waved, and everyone immediately formed a team according to his method, staring blankly at the wooden target in the distance. Ye Yongjia began to teach them the drill step by step, and Du Qing also took it.
Using pen and paper, I observed every move of the soldiers and recorded them silently on the general stand.
Ye Yongjia taught it five or six times over and over again. Although it was a rough line, the connection was still not very coherent, so he had to give up temporarily.
When he returned to his tent that night, Ye Yongjia lit up the candle and said to Du Qing: "The governor has worked hard for several days and nights. These newly selected soldiers are indeed extraordinary and very skilled. But the blunderbuss is a new thing after all. If they are allowed to
It is still too difficult to master all those arrays. But the enemy is fifty miles away, and time is tight, which is a headache."
"My lord, please don't be anxious," Du Qing grasped the calluses on his hands under the light, "In order to ensure the safety of the two of you, Du has sent people to investigate the captives many times and found out that the troops coming from the north have not yet reunited and are just holding on to the danger.
I don’t dare to go out to fight. We have to wait almost a month.”
"Is the time too short? I dare to ask the governor for his opinion." Cai Xianqing didn't know anything about the military, so he didn't dare to make rash remarks at this time. He only humbly asked Du Qing for advice.
Du Qing took a deep breath: "Short is a bit short...but I have a stupid way to make the new army become elite instantly!"
"Please speak!" they both said in unison.
"A low-ranking official is not talented. When I was a junior high school student, I served as a scout for many times, conducting long-distance reconnaissance of the enemy and drawing maps, so I learned the art of painting. Most of the officers and soldiers are rough men. Today, I might as well draw the complete array diagram with them.
Look, the advance and retreat of the team are obvious." Du Qing gestured with his fingers on the table.
Cai Xianqing said: "I heard from Ye Shangshu that there are more than a dozen ways to form an array. How can we draw them all at once?"
Du Qing shook his head and smiled softly: "It doesn't matter. But if I have to put in a little more effort, what's the problem! Besides, when Mr. Ye just told it, I had already written down all the essence on paper, eliminating the complexity and keeping the simplicity.
I have my own way of doing it in my heart."
Although Du Qing's performance was very relaxed, both of them knew that this was definitely an extremely difficult task. Their expressions suddenly became heavy, but they didn't know what to say, so they grabbed his arm tightly.
Said: "Thank you for your hard work."
Du Qing didn't say a word to this, but gritted his teeth and said: "If you can be loyal to the country and kill thieves in the side court, even if you die with all your strength, why bother? I won't sleep tonight, you guys take out a few good things from the cabinet
The paper needs to be very large, and I’ll start drawing right away!”
Ye Yongjia nodded and said: "I am here with you tonight to help give you some advice and I won't sleep anymore!"
The three of them pulled down the curtain outside the big tent and stayed under the weak candlelight to make an array diagram. When one candle was extinguished, Ye and Cai went to light a new one without any airs or complaints, which made Du Qing
I was so moved that I started painting with all my heart.
The next many days were spent like this. However, considering Cai Xianqing's old age, Ye Yongjia repeatedly persuaded him not to stay up late. The latter did not come to stay with him just now, but only came to ask about the situation in the morning; and the remaining two
Then there is not much time to rest. I can only close my eyes for a while in the early morning, and I can only sleep for an hour and a half at most.
After all, Ye Yongjia was a civil servant. Such endless fatigue made him unable to support himself. He accidentally contracted a cold and had to stay in bed. Fortunately, Du Qing had been outside the Great Wall for a long time and was used to such weather.
In addition, he was strong and strong, so he would not fall down. He had no time to take care of Ye Yongjia. He devoted himself to painting every day. After struggling for about six or seven days, he finally finished all the array pictures and handed them to Ye Yongjia.
Ye Yongjia was so happy that he did not hesitate to support his sick body to look through Du Qing's drawings.